About Freshly Completed

September 2, 2011

The BIG Reveal!

Okay, I'm ready to reveal my painting.

FIRST, you must hop over to Lemonpeel Studios to see where the inspiration came from for my painting. This photo was captured by my very talented photographer friend, M. When I first saw her photo a couple months ago I remember thinking just what a beautiful photo it was and how I always loved that barn in Park City.

This very enjoyable painting took me three weeks to complete. At the end of each day of painting I had to wait about three to four days for everything to dry. I LOVE painting in oils-- but some times the huge wait for everything to dry gets a little old.

I always paint with the least paint that I can. I simply Hate to waste paint. So by the time I'm done, my pallet is almost always clean of paint. Waste not, want not-- right?

I spent a long time thinking and planning out how I was going to add the wheat. Firstly, if you'll notice the original photo is taken through a wheat field and the wheat appears blurry-- how does one paint that?

By Day Four I spent a long time mixing up the grass and adding highlights and trees and other background details-- trying to get in the mood to prepare myself for the wheat.

Once I was done messing around with the background--- I just went for it.

I pulled up a goggle picture of "wheat" to kind of see what it looks like and had a good go at it.

Very lovely painting and it looks just as real as the real one does!I am a new follower from the blog hop and I am following you thru GFC. I cannot follow thru FB right now and its a long story so please check out my post dated August 20th on the Weekend Blog Hops. As soon as they take care of it I can follow. I will leave it up to you if you want to follow me now or wait until I can follow you first. Either way I understand. Follow what you can and I will be happy! Thanks so much and have a great day!